TCI makes COVID vaccines mandatory for work-permit holders
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“Persons who, by choice, elect not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine will not have annual work permits renewed and will be required to leave the islands,” read an announcement from the territory’s governor Nigel J. Dakin, reported on the Visit TCI tourism website.
15,674 vaccinated in TCI
According to Cayman Compass today, April 26, 2021, as of April 18, 2021, 15,674 people – around 35% of the population of TCI– had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Like Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, and other British Overseas Territories, the Turks and Caicos Islands have received support from the UK for its vaccination programme.
Along with Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean island group was in the first wave to receive the early batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from the UK.
Turks and Caicos has been open to tourists since July, without quarantine measures. Pre-arrival testing is required. The islands have had 2,376 cases and 17 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak.
It is the first British territory to introduce any kind of measure to compel people to take the vaccine.
Cayman Islands authorities have previously indicated that getting immunised against the virus will be voluntary, though they have encouraged everyone who is eligible to get the jab.
Not VI’s intention to make vaccine mandatory- Premier Fahie
Meanwhile, in the [British] Virgin Islands, just over 9400 persons of the some 30,000 population have received at least one dose of the AstraZeneca jab.
Nevertheless, Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has said his government will not force anyone to take COVID-19 vaccines; however, he said the vaccinated will be the ones benefitting as the economy reopens.
“I am aware that member states within the region are seeking to amend their public health laws to make it mandatory for some sector of employees to be vaccinated. It is not our intention to make it mandatory, I repeat, it is not our intention to make it mandatory, but it is our intention not to have the vaccines expired while in our possession, if others can do with it,” Premier Fahie had said in a COVID-19 update on April 8, 2021.
The Premier had also said vaccination is the best bet in the fight against COVID-19 and allowing the VI to reopen its economy quicker.
“It is time for us to fully reopen our borders, reopen our ports, return to full-time schools. All these can be accomplished sooner, based on our decisions to vaccinate or not!
“The most credible option to rebound our economy at this time is the vaccines. This will ensure the safety of our people and the economy of the Virgin Islands as much as humanly possible,” Premier Fahie had said.
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27 Responses to “TCI makes COVID vaccines mandatory for work-permit holders”
Seems you do a lot of reading. Many heard of the Mark of the Beast. I always heard that it will come a time when certain people would not be able to buy or sell, and the onset to such an event would be a world of disease, pestilences and famine trouble like no one has ever seen before. I thought of it during the lock down, then I started to deny it , thought to myself it would happen in my life time, but here it is. The events that will take the world into another century. The plague, the vaccine, the buying and selling, the work, the travel , and finally the obedience to God. Men will themselves become corrupt to a level we have not imagine.
They say the vaccine is critical, one year later they hit the speed bumps but “ the benefits out weigh the risks”
Thought it had no risks. 20 years ago you couldn’t look up what was right or wrong now they censor all the opposite narrative.
Media & social media is in on it and they only care about the money not your privacy, not your health. something ain’t right.
Big money went into vaccination program now they can’t think of any other method. No studies on boosted immune systems, no treatment available. No critical thinking LEADERS following the narrative they pass down hook line and sinker.
This ain’t your regular vaccine. Making new technology mandatory is a stupid idea.
Around the same time a British a British Doctor called Jenner noticed that farmers caught cow pox , a disease people who worked closely with cattle would sometimes catch. It was not fatal. And then he noticed that no one who had had cow pox caught smallpox. So he began to use injections of cow pox, a much milder disease to prevent the deadly disease of smallpox. Using a milder disease to prevent a deadly disease is called vaccination. Jenners system eliminated smallpox, a terrible disease that killed millions and left one third of its survivors blind.
Since then many vaccines have been discovered and used with generally speaking spectacular effects and few if any side effects.